Ahlener SG is a German football club from the city of

Ahlen Ahlen (; Westphalian: ''Aulen'') is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 30 km southeast of Münster. Ahlen is part of the District of Warendorf and is economically the most important town in that district. Ahlen is part of the larger ...

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

. The origins of the club go back to the merger of predecessor sides ''Spiel- und Sport 1905 Ahlen'' and ''Ballspiel Verein Westfalia 1906 Ahlen'' which played as ''SSV Westfalia 1905/06 Ahlen''. __TOC__

History

On 8 July 1970 the side was joined with ''Sportfreunde Wacker 1920 Ahlen'' to become Ahlener Sportverein and in 1972 advanced to the third tier Amateurliga Westfalen Gruppe 1 where they would spend the next half dozen seasons as an upper table side. ''SV'''s best result was a second-place finish in 1976 before they crashed out of what had become the Amateuroberliga Westfalen after a 17th-place result in 1978–79.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ''SV'' merged with ''Handball Sportgemeinde 73 Ahlen'' on 25 May 1993 and competes today as ''Ahlener SG 93'' which has departments for football,

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

, water sports, volleyball,

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

and fitness. Today the club plays in the tier nine Kreisliga A Beckum.

References

External links

Official team siteDas deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in North Rhine-Westphalia 1993 establishments in Germany Association football clubs established in 1993 {{Germany-footyclub-stub